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Anna May Wong seated in her mother's lap, c. 1905 This is a duplicate copy of the Certificate of Identity issued to actress Anna May Wong. Anna May Wong was born Wong Liu Tsong (黃柳霜, Liu Tsong literally meaning "willow frost") on January 3, 1905, on Flower Street in Los Angeles, one block north of Chinatown, in an integrated community of Chinese, Irish, German and Japanese residents.
In 2008, she was awarded with the Outstanding Contribution to Chinese Cinema award at the 11th Shanghai International Film Festival. She has modeled for multiple high-end fashion brands. [6] One of the most recognisable Asian actresses in the Western world, Time called her "China's gift to Hollywood" in 2005. [7]
Eng's 2011 indie film Inseparable, starring Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey and Daniel Wu, was the first fully-Chinese funded film to have a Hollywood star in the lead and was on Wall Street Journal's "Top 10 Most Notable Asian Films of 2011". [48]
Keiko Agena, actress, Gilmore Girls; Philip Ahn, actor often considered the first Korean American in Hollywood; Asa Akira, pornographic actress; Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, actress, Modern Family; Aziz Ansari, actor and comedian, Human Giant and Parks and Recreation: Television series Funny People and I Love You, Man: Films; Lulu Antariksa, actress
For many Asian Americans, the film's seven Oscars, including Best Picture, feel like a watershed moment — that Hollywood is moving past seeing them only in tropes. It represents an opportunity ...
Michelle Yeoh just became the first Asian actress to win the academy award for best actress. She took the stage on Sunday night very emotional and began her speech with a shoutout to people ...
Yeoh was born on 6 August 1962 in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, [11] to Janet Yeoh and Yeoh Kian-teik. Her father was elected as a Senator of Malaysia from 1959 to 1969 as a member of Perak's Malaysian Chinese Association, [12] [13] [14] the Chairman of the Perak Bar Association, [when?] [12] and the founder of "Sri Maju" in 1975, a major intercity coach service in Malaysia and Singapore.
One infamous example was the 1937 film "The Good Earth," where German American actress Luise Rainer won an Academy Award for her depiction of a Chinese character, complete with prosthetics.